Mark
Al Taylor wrote:
Bernie,
Not to mention the fact that our grand kids are growing up, never knowing life without color TV, computers, cell phones, Lasers, space travel etc. My grandma, when she died, had experienced life from horse and buggy in Cleveland to men walking on the moon. Life is too damn short.
Al
At 02:40 PM 10/11/2002, you wrote:
Dan,
Are digital cameras great or what! I just e-mailed you a pic of my shaft puller. At your request, I took the camera off the shelf, walked out to the garage, shot 3 pics, walked back and plugged the camera into the computer, picked the best angle and sent it...all within about 2 minutes. Not the greatest lighting, but just a few years ago that would have taken several days, using special flash lighting, usually a press camera and messy developing in a pan. Maybe I'm showing my age to remember that old stuff. :-)
Bernie
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From: Dan Neubecker <mailto:dlneubec@;snainc.com> To:
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Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 2:11 PM Subject: RE: ShopTalk:
Inexpensive stepless steel shafts
Bernie, You'll be happy to know that in a recent plotting of
deflection over frequency on 4 Rifle shafts (4.0, 5.0 and 7.0
iron and 5.0 wood) seem to indicate 1 cpm equals about .0035"
deflection on my NF2. I don't yet know if that will be the case
for everyone, or necessarily with all types and brands of shafts,
but it appears to be for Rifle's.
Dan Neubecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message-----
From: Bernie Baymiller [mailto:sbbay@;knology.net] Sent: Friday,
October 11, 2002 12:46 PM To: Shoptalk Subject: ShopTalk:
Inexpensive stepless steel shafts
Some chaff for the wind, since it sems to be slow around here
lately... Lately, several suppliers have been selling
inexpensive stepless steel shafts. Elta (Golfsource USA) has the
Supreme Gold and Tour Golf has the Tour Series Stepless Steel,
both of which I've tried on my irons. The Supreme Golds ($5)
seemed pretty good...the two sets I bought were all were within 3
grams and a little lighter than Rifles...maybe 114 grams for a
39" shaft. They played well. But were they as good as they
seemed? Since I built those sets, I have begun using my
Neufinder 2 to sort the shafts by deflection, choose a base shaft
and match the other shafts to it by deflection. I generally use
the softest NBP in the longest iron and stiffest NBP in the
shortest iron. (Although Dan wants me to try it the other way
around.) The other day, I tried Tour Golf's Stepless Steel and,
again, they were pretty much within specs for weight. But WOW,
some of them seemed way off in the NBP and spine magnitude when I
sorted them on my NF2. The normal NBP deflection for an R-flex
shaft on a 35" beam length appears to be 0.545"-0.549"...at least
5 of the 8 shafts fell within that range. Spine deflections on
the 5 normal shafts were between 0.552" and 0.555"...seemed
pretty good. But of the three outliers, two NBPs were 0.512" and
0.517" and the third was 0.558". If 0.004" equates to about 1 cpm
(I'm no mathematician...I was given that number and hope I'm
using it appropriately.), two were off by at least 6-8 cpm and
the other by more than 2 cpm. Not so good. You couldn't use the
manufacturer's recommended tip trim and come anywhere near a
matched set with these unless you got lucky. And, you'd even have
a hard time with a frequency analyzer, unless you took your cpm
readings directly on the NBP and spine. Just thought it was
interesting that shafts that look OK by weight can have an almost
unmatchable spine magnitude. Bernie Writeto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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